Tag: BigData
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Link: A useful big data story
In 2011 Friedberg decided to sell exclusively to farmers, and WeatherBill changed its name to The Climate Corporation. “We needed to feel a little less Silicon Valley and less whimsical,” said Friedberg. For the next few years he would spend half his time on the road, explaining himself to people whose first step was toward…
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Link: Hadoop Needs To Be A Business, Not Just A Platform
Financial goop on Cloudera and HortonWorks merging: The deal for the merger of the two companies is surprisingly simple. Shareholders in Hortonworks will get 1.305 shares in Cloudera and Cloudera will be the remaining company in fact, if not necessarily in name. This means that Cloudera shareholders will own 60 percent of the combined company…
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Link: SUSE Builds Momentum with Innovative Open Source Offerings, Revenue Growth and Commitment to Enterprise Customers
“For the six months ending April 30, 2018, SUSE saw revenues of $182.9 million, which represents continued growth of approximately 17 percent over the same period in the previous year. Adjusted EBITDA for that period was $56 million, nearly 23 percent year-over-year growth.” Original source: SUSE Builds Momentum with Innovative Open Source Offerings, Revenue Growth…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #39
I’ve been in Berlin at a quarterly sales meeting this week. It’s a big room of people, new and veterans. Traveling from Amsterdam to Berlin is just an hour, the old you spend longer in the airports than the actual flight thing. It proves out the whole reason for moving here though: business traveling in…
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Link: The Trouble with Cloud “Repatriation”
“Forty-seven (47%) percent of them said improving performance/availability was one of the main reasons for leveraging multiple infrastructure environments.” Original source: The Trouble with Cloud “Repatriation”
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Link: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration and delivery platform
Managed CI/CD from Google. Original source: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration and delivery platform
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Link: Google Banks on Kubernetes in Cloud Wars
Putting 3rd party middleware into Google Cloud: “Among the commercial applications included in the marketplace are big data, database and machine learning applications along with developer tools. Meanwhile, open source applications range from WordPress and the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database to Apache Spark cluster computing.” Original source: Google Banks on Kubernetes in Cloud Wars
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Link: Store scanning robots will get AI, object recognition boost with recent acquisition
“Savvides is charged with advancing Bossa Nova’s product recognition capabilities at scale and identifying out-of-stock and misplaced products. Bossa Nova’s robots rove stores scanning shelves and alerting managers to any issues with inventory, including misplaced or low-stock items. As I’ve written, the robots are also Big Data mining machines writ small, able to track product…
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Link: Why Mexico has not become more prosperous—and how it could
“In other words, workers end up in jobs where they are less productive than they might be. Too many individuals who should be workers become entrepreneurs or are self-employed. Efficient businesses are taxed and penalised, while subsidies help sustain unproductive ones. Joseph Schumpeter’s notion of “creative destruction”, in which capitalist competition drives out weaker firms…
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Link: Enterprises taking path of greatest resistance to cloud, survey shows
Still a lot of stuff on-premises, and people want to move it to public cloud: ‘More than 80 percent of respondents have more than 100 applications under their purview, and a solid majority have a good deal still managed on-premises. The survey finds 74 percent stating at least half of these applications are on-premises. Another…
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Link: Digital transformation in power generation and delivery
“Over the next decade, the electricity industry is predicted to unlock approximately $1.3 trillion in value through development and digitization of infrastructure, including platforms, devices, as well as cloud and advanced analytics.” With the “greatest opportunities are predicted at the retail (8.5% EBIT improvement) and generation (6.6%) levels.” Original source: Digital transformation in power generation…
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Link: Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don’t want it
“In its annual survey of IT leaders, the analyst firm found that just 1 per cent are already using blockchain and only 8 per cent plan to experiment with it in the short term. “In contrast, a third of the 293 respondents said they had no interest in blockchain, and a further 43 per cent…
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Link: Modeling the future enterprise: people, purpose, and profit
“One answer is in a straightforward metric—how new technologies like cloud, cognitive, mobile, IoT, mobile, etc., impact industries via the gross domestic product (GDP) by industry by region. Looking at the improvement opportunities in healthcare, energy, government, and the supply chain, among other domains, IDC has identified $18.5 trillion in annual economic value add by…
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Link: Monitoring continues to be a valuable part of the hybrid cloud, as Sensu raises $10M
“Sensu Enterprise is the commercial version of that project, and it costs between $99 and $999 depending on how many servers you’ll need to monitor your cloud environment. You also get customer service that you won’t get if you try to install the open-source project on your own, a key part of the strategy of…
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Link: Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence
“Local-Variable Type Inference: Enhances the Java Language to extend type inference to declarations of local variables with initializers. It introduces var to Java, something that is common in other languages. Consolidate the JDK Forest into a Single Repository: Combine the numerous repositories of the JDK forest into a single repository to simplify and streamline development.…
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Link: Will open source software become a ‘tragedy of the commons’?
I love this concept of tragedy of the anti-commons: “Strong management can stop this overuse. But because contributors haven’t been able to derive value through a platform built just for them, they must look for other ways to gain value, perhaps through the addition of intellectual property. And this leads us into the tragedy of…
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Link: Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics
Still waiting for BI👉analytics👉big data👉AI/ML to hit the big time: “The global survey asked respondents to rate their orgs according to Gartner’s 5 levels of maturity for data & analytics…. 60% of respondents…rated themselves in the lowest 3 levels.” Original source: Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics
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Link: Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms
“One-off moves don’t change the fact that tech giants are likely to continue to make vast amounts of money overseas, on which they often pay little tax.” Original source: Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms
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Why the Housing Bubble Tanked the Economy And the Tech Bubble Didn’t
Why the Housing Bubble Tanked the Economy And the Tech Bubble Didn’t
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SysTrack 7.0 continues Lakeside’s ‘big-data’ push in end-user management
My report on Lakeside Software’s new release is up. SysTrack is one of the veteran tools used in the end-user device management space and, if it can start adding in more mobile and tablet functionality, is well setup to profit from the churn in that area helping companies asses and then plan for how to…
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